Attendees:
toby, matt, brian, greg, george, jonathan, morris, alec, rahul, alex,
david, zhu zhu, bruce, pat
Topics suggested:
NW Python Day 20??
Talks
Go for Python programmers?
Meetup.com group? SeaPIG vs. SeaPY
HTML generating Templates for JavaScript & Python
Async Python - event loop
Deployment Tools
Python interface with Heroku / OpenStack
Project idea for input
High performance Python / bulk data
Wrappers for Java libraries, SWIG vs. Ctypes etc.
Python desktop applications
Discussion notes:
mini-conference discussion - does SeaPIG have the organizational
capacity? perhaps not right now
Talks at SeaPIG meetings... increasing this
examples: Boston Python group
TryPython in North Carolina (developers of Python Boot Camp content)
Meetup - question of paying to use Meetup
Organization and growing SeaPIG size?
HTML templates for Python and Javascript - Mustache - also exists a
Javascript library for Jinja
Mustache has no loops except array iteration
http://code.google.com/p/json-template
Bruce's template language - part of the codelab
http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/
Async discussion
Scratch - is async out of the box - http://scratch.mit.edu/
Deployment Tools - distelli.com
Python interface with Heroku / OpenStack
Suggestions for starter projects - start small
Heroku = premium recipes for servers
good databases for performance being read by Hadoop?
HBase
idea: process from HBase and emit models which go into the relational
database (since there is a requirement for relational queries)
2 user groups in Seattle for big data
Nick Dimiduk is a good speaker - has an HBase book
lookup Hadoop user group
Cross-language wrappers
for Java: Geotools - Java typology suite
geoscriptblog.blogspot.com
geoscript.org
CUGOS.org meeting this Wed. 6-8
Django Seattle has weekly hack night on Thursdays at Espresso Vivace -
in SLU across from REI
5pm - 8pm
